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• Our personality, which is being built up each instant with its accumulated experience, changes without ceasing. By changing, it prevents any state, although superficially identical with another, from ever repeating it in its very depth. That is why our duration is irreversible
The finished portrait is explained by the features of the model, by the nature of the artist, by the colors spread out on the palette; but, even with the knowledge of what explains it, no one, not even the artist, could have foreseen exactly what the portrait would be, for to predict it would have been to produce it before it was produced--an absurd hypothesis which is its own refutation. Even so with regard to the moments of our life, of which we are the artisans. Each of them is a kind of creation
- Bergson.
• Three sins none can escape on any day: sinful thoughts, the presumption that God must answer our prayers, and dust of slander.
• The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open.
• I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.
- Elmer Diktonius
• For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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- Abraham Lincoln